Right. I’m now going to do my whole non-shitposty thing now. (There's TL;DR at the end).
The issue of the SJW’s still seeing everything related to the video game industry as something Gamergate related is a very worrying trend. It mostly seems to speak to their own hivemind/wolfpack mentalities in which everything is seen in incredibly stark terms. There is only black and white, there is only good or evil.
There is no grey.
A lot of these SJW types also either work in niche industries where their own views will not really be looked upon, work for themselves or as we’ve seen more often than not, do not work at all.
It speaks a lot to the mentality that, because there were proven conspiracies (namely the approved journalist list) then literally
everything must be a conspiracy.
Rapp seems to have been one of those few people who slipped through the net, it happens all the time. Companies like Nintendo will most likely have a fairly strict social media policy in which your own actions and behaviours will be seen as an extension of the company and so you must behave correctly on those channels
at all times. You are seen as an extension of that company at all times and this is especially true when you work in more public facing roles such as PR.
The company I worked for previously generally advised us that we simply should not post work related things to our social media as members of the public can and would find it. If they found the content objectionable, they would send a copy of it through to HR and nobody wanted to have to spend an afternoon justifying an image or a tweet.
Indeed several figures from the company's own marketing/PR dept advised that the best way to avoid violating the policy (even by accident) was to simply not talk about work on any kind of open environment because someone
would find it and it
would get back to them.
Eventually.
And there, ladies and gents of the kiwi audience. Is that key word.
Eventually.
Folks like Rapp and her new SJW ilk don’t appear to understand that when you hurl something up online it is up there in one format or another
forever and very publically for any idiot to find and complain about long after your own ardour on it may have cooled.
They don’t seem to understand that there is a huge disconnect to an opinion muttered in a pub corner to your mates once, and effectively standing in front of a concert hall full of people with cameras pointed at you as you scream into the megaphone.
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Indeed, you can see it when from her own tweets at how confused Rapp is because they chose to dig up Alison Rapp’s Child Pornography apologist tweets.
Now, on their own it’s very skeevy in such a public platform, especially with her (now defunct) relationship with Nintendo. But if you then, say, do a quick google of her name with “linkedin” as most professionals do these days, you then find Alsion Rapp and while browsing that you find her thesis which, on careful reading, can indeed be misconstrued for Child Pornography support.
The Penultimate Paragraph of her Thesis said:
"Child pornography is not the cause of societal issues regarding children, and its total eradication should not be considered a solution to these ills."
This is part of her closing argument to justify the entire subject matter of the paper.
This argument is also a straw man to the core, the eradication of child porn would actually go a
long way to helping stem the tide of abuse as it would net a lot of the active abusers/content producers. The vast majority of pedophiles are
consumers of Child Porn, not producers due to the fact they don’t wish to be caught and jailed.
Provided it is backed up by treating the condition as the legitimate mental illness it is with no legal penalty for those consumers who wish to get help, the eradication of child porn and its production would allow us to go a very long way to treating this issue in a sensible manner.
They are currently trialling this method in Berlin at the moment and initial results appear to be highly positive.
But for now we’ll leave aside Alison Rapp, Child Pornography Supporter and instead focus on the public reason she was fired.
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Alison seems to have gone “LOL TL;DR” on her contract before signing when she joined and just assumed all her views and sex positivity and all the other guff she believes in was protected. Who reads when there’s games to play, amirite?
It was not.
You can plaster “My own opinions” all over your twitter and your facebook and tumblr all you damn well want, but if your contract specifically has a social media policy, and you sign it, then you have agreed to abide by that policy.
I strongly suspect that Nintendo has quite a strict media policy, that when you sign up your social media presence in effect becomes an extension of the company and that the views espoused there must fit in with the company’s line or you could face disciplinary action or termination. While abiding by such a policy
and using it for personal reasons can be done, it’s a very delicate balancing act to play.
Posting lingerie pictures (sent by a fan, no less), pictures of you naked in a bath, and tweets in which you are openly supporting child pornography and its consumption are going to be in violation of this policy.
Especially for a company who’s main market and demographic are families, young children and the elderly.
Second, and the stronger reason she was likely canned, is that she was moonlighting as a risque model.
While many companies do not bar you from having a second or even third job, larger corporations now expect you to understand, and treat them as your primary employer. On that basis you have to inform them of this new job, when the hours are likely to be and how this could effect your primary job or even the company’s reputation and they can approve or disapprove of certain jobs to the point of disciplinary action or more likely, termination.
Rapp simply going off and moonlighting as a risque model means she either didn’t care about the second job, or didn’t inform Nintendo through willful ignorance. Which puts her in violation of the policy.
Third, and one we’re unable to presently confirm is her leaking of information to interested parties. This is the closest Rapp actually comes to a grey area in her (now numerous) contract violations. But this is purely speculative.
Being in PR is a tricky as hell game. You are handed a lot of confidential information, a lot of it is to be later prepped and sent out for release and this is basically all part of your job.
Like most employees at a big company handling sensitive information, she will have signed an NDA like most would. The difference is, her violating it would probably just trigger a disciplinary hearing as opposed to instant shitcanning.
This is why you should
always read every policy in full when you sign up to a new job.
Each violation on it’s own ehhh, disciplinary action, rap on the knuckles and she’d have to keep her nose clean for a while following what she’s supposed to the absolute letter.
But two or more? At pretty much the same time? Yeah, no. You’re getting fired.
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TL;DR version:
-Alison Rapp, still Pro-Child Porn, as evidenced by her tweets.
-Alison Rapp, didn’t read her contracts and violated them (at least) three times resulting in her being fired
-SJW’s still jumping at shadow of Gamergate
-Trend of SJWs to support people in the Pro-Pedo camp continues its worrying trend.
-Singal unable to research properly (actually come and register and talk to us, we all know you’re reading this)
-Kiwis win, gain lots of milk from all cows